A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

I think as long as I do a good job and put in all my effort to proving that I’m worth it, then everything should be fine.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

I’m not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

Love is a state of being.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

June Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it’s to have any meaning in this world – and stop being its apologist.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

My friends, there are no friends.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.